Name Carex pamirica is validated through short note by B. Fedtschenko (1907), it does not include description, but gives reference to O. & B. Fedtschenko (l.c., 1903), where taxon is validly described at varietal level. See also Egorova, in A. I. Vvedensky (ed.), Consp. Fl. Asiae Mediae 5: 6-98. 1976.